tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post6850594217808948798..comments2023-10-28T02:33:53.953-07:00Comments on Sesame-seed-sized Dreams: It's not just the weather (begging for poems)Hanenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490161992949497684noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-38453197012216971272011-07-13T04:58:21.083-07:002011-07-13T04:58:21.083-07:00I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this but I do...I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this but I don't know much about poetry at all, unless you count lyrics to music. I am very shyly putting this out here. It is from Shel Silverstein, yes, the children's author;<br />For unslumping:<br /><br />Where the Sidewalk Ends<br /><br />There is a place where the sidewalk ends<br />And before the street begins,<br />And there the grass grows briannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03703767053224975771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-30694245377145091052011-07-12T23:02:16.348-07:002011-07-12T23:02:16.348-07:00it's cheesey, but i keep going back to dickins...it's cheesey, but i keep going back to dickinson.<br /><br />Hope is the thing with feathers<br />That perches in the soul,<br />And sings the tune without the words,<br />And never stops at all,<br /><br />And sweetest in the gale is heard;<br />And sore must be the storm<br />That could abash the little bird<br />That kept so many warm.<br /><br />I've heard it in the chilliest land<br Pomegranatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269172833468901068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-46423357845278404582011-07-12T19:30:16.796-07:002011-07-12T19:30:16.796-07:00Also, when I am down I have you for inspiration. Y...Also, when I am down I have you for inspiration. You are my rock. xPinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04202997946071488568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-86323223485256941792011-07-12T19:21:12.240-07:002011-07-12T19:21:12.240-07:00Lana Turner Has Collapsed is wonderful - I hadn...Lana Turner Has Collapsed is wonderful - I hadn't read that in years!<br /><br />H, I send you poems as I find them so don't have any inspiration on the spot.<br /><br />Barbara Temperton's Southern Edge is incredible; you can down load a sample from the e-book page: http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/1179. I have the book if you'd like to borrow it.<br /><br />I think you'Pinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04202997946071488568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-84856120548710281702011-07-12T12:06:38.635-07:002011-07-12T12:06:38.635-07:00Beautiful poems. This is the one I always go to wh...Beautiful poems. This is the one I always go to when I am feeling angry, indignant and want to smile:<br /><br /><i><b>For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks </b><br />By Martín Espada</i><br /><br />I have noticed that the hostess in peasant dress,<br />the wait staff and the boss<br />sharestill life angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150141781089602529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-37336476224805481172011-07-11T19:09:04.847-07:002011-07-11T19:09:04.847-07:00Thank you so much dear ones! Beautiful words &...Thank you so much dear ones! Beautiful words & thoughts. Even just pointing the finger at those dementors and pinning down their nasty voices helps. <br />xxxhHanenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490161992949497684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-72326922231093989932011-07-11T16:56:27.654-07:002011-07-11T16:56:27.654-07:00I can not even begin to compete with the poems off...I can not even begin to compete with the poems offered so far.<br /><br />All I can say is work on your Patronus charm and make those damned dementors go away!Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10791317184998122691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-13164204518990123462011-07-11T14:40:51.826-07:002011-07-11T14:40:51.826-07:00I like Lucille Clifton's "these hips,&quo...I like Lucille Clifton's "these hips," and also "won't you celebrate with me":<br /><br />won't you celebrate with me<br />what i have shaped into<br />a kind of life? i had no model.<br />born in babylon<br />both nonwhite and woman<br />what did i see to be except myself?<br />i made it up<br />here on this bridge between<br />starshine and clay,<br />my one handericahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347057746449071812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-84866500467414251612011-07-11T05:56:01.144-07:002011-07-11T05:56:01.144-07:00You tell those dementors to pipe down. Nasty thing...You tell those dementors to pipe down. Nasty things, peddling their lies. <br /><br />I like the poem you've chosen. It's just made my day a little brighter.<br /><br />I tend to go for short these days as my concentration span isn't great! So here are my contributions, short but sweet.<br /><br /><i>Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker</i> by Ogden Nash never fails to raise a smile Catherine Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618295389400457254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-25691726489370189602011-07-11T05:03:36.533-07:002011-07-11T05:03:36.533-07:00I've never much been for poetry, and I confess...I've never much been for poetry, and I confess, I'm kind of crap at cheering myself up. I usually instead try to find things that describe my mood. Not really the best. But when I'm trying to give myself a boost, I like to listen to "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World (I know, cheesy, at least here in the US where it was SUPER popular for a while), and "Drive" by Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157239516168591352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-36722342034226334292011-07-11T03:42:42.649-07:002011-07-11T03:42:42.649-07:00i have never been one for poems....I am reading an...i have never been one for poems....I am reading an adventure story - not high literature by any means, but i liked it. it said that the mind has 4 doors to protect itself from trauma; sleep, remembering (or hiding memories), madness and finally death - while not necessarily uplifting in itself i liked it cause until recently i have fallen into deep deep sleep without noise in my head, a sort of nubreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14638320238975472443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8073262119651255587.post-16320479846000845922011-07-11T03:00:07.466-07:002011-07-11T03:00:07.466-07:00I am sort of ashamed I had never read it before, b...I am sort of ashamed I had never read it before, but the film brought this to me. I think it is wonderful.<br /><br /> Invictus<br /><br />Out of the night that covers me,<br />Black as the Pit from pole to pole,<br />I thank whatever gods may be<br />For my unconquerable soul.<br /><br />In the fell clutch of circumstance<br />I have not winced nor cried aloud.<br />Under the bludgeonings of Merryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338478486624362745noreply@blogger.com